Nationalist Congress Party

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is a conservative political party in India, founded on 25 May 1999. The party split from the Indian National Congress after its leader Sharad Pawar was expelled from the INC due to disputing the legitimacy of the Italian Sonia Gandhi's leadership of the INC party. While the NCP claims to follow centrist views, the party subscribes to nationalism, conservatism, and populism, and it has been a minor opposition party in India.